Democratic Republican Union

The Democratic Republican Union (URD) is a Venezuelan liberal party that was founded in 1945. In 1958, the URD joined the two other main parties of the country, Accion Democratica and Copei, in preserving the new democratic government in the "Puntofijo Pact", but the party resigned from the pact in 1962. In 1963, the party had 19% of the vote, but this dropped to 3% in 1973.